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"Mr President, I certainly join in welcoming this announcement. I also join in the expressions of regret and sympathy in respect of ETA’s very many unnecessary victims. I do that somewhat from a personal perspective in that we, in Northern Ireland, likewise suffered unnecessary decades of terrorism.
I would join in your words of caution from the experience in Northern Ireland. Certainly it is good to see this ceasefire. We hope it is permanent, but Mr Poettering is absolutely right: there can be and should be no reward for doing what is right. The mistake that was made in my country, when the associate organisation of ETA declared its ceasefire back in 1994, was that everyone rushed forward with political rewards for that which had been done. That proved to be disastrous, because it encouraged a belief that you could keep a foot in both camps. You cannot be a terrorist by night and a politician by day. There must be a total transition to exclusively peaceful means.
The Spanish authorities should therefore learn from the experience in Northern Ireland. They should test ETA’s commitment and bona fides and realise that you should not and cannot give rewards for doing that which was necessary and right.
In welcoming the ceasefire, I offer that advice and that caution from the experience in my country."@en1
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